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Hannover (dpa) - Hannover 96 is slipping deeper and deeper into the crisis.
Coach Kenan Kocak's team lost 3-0 to Holstein Kiel on Sunday (0-0) and has now only taken one point from the last four games.
The lead on the relegation zone is only two points.
Kiel won again for the first time after four games without three points.
The guests from Schleswig-Holstein moved up to third place in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Kiel only needed five minutes in the second half to decide the game with three goals.
Alexander Mühling with a hand penalty in the 56th minute, Dominik Kaiser with an own goal (57th) and Janni Serra (60th) scored.
Hannover ended the game only ten because of a yellow-red card for Simon Falette (71.).
For almost an hour the hosts had been superior.
Marvin Ducksch had two great chances to take the lead, but failed both after a strong pass from Hendrik Weydandt and after a catastrophic error by Jannik Dehm standing free to Ioannis Gelios in the Kiel goal.
On the other hand, Michael Esser thwarted Fabian Reese's best Holstein opportunity.
A handball by Falette in the penalty area then initiated the fifth defeat of the season for Lower Saxony.
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